The argument and thought-experiment now generally known as the Chinese Room
Argument was first published in a 1980 article by American philosopher John Searle (1932 …

Managerial Finance provides a clear and readable explanation of the most important topics
managers should understand about business finance. These include resource …

Considerations of personal identity bear on John Searle's Chinese Room argument, and on
the opposed position that a computer itself could really understand a natural language. In …

This dissertation offers an integrated, systematic account of the qualitative, symmetrical
patterns that are shared by all thought experimental activities, which include the wide range …

The aim of this work is to lay the basis of a post-Cartesian cognitive science of music.
Traditional psychology of music often adopts a theoretical framework in line with the dualistic …

There is a problem associated with contemporary studies of philosophy of mind, which
focuses on the identification and convergence of human and machine intelligence. This is …

This paper attempts a systematic survey of some of the issues raised by Searle and his
critics, while including new arguments on the application of the Chinese Room Argument to …

Strong AI is rather easy to refute; the basic argument can be summarized in one sentence: A
system, me for example, could implement a program for understanding Chinese, for …

The main purpose of this paper is to defend Searle's (1980) classic Chinese room argument
against a number of objections. Searle takes his argument to show that semantics do not …

The Turing Test was conceived by Alan Turing (1950) as a device to work around the difficult
question of whether computers can think, and instead focus on more useful topics of …